vscode-portable-installer.sh

A bash script to install VSCode in a Linux environment without sudo rights; written and tested on Debian 10.

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Run:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alanbixby/vscode-portable-installer/master/vscode-portable-installer.sh
chmod +x ./vscode-portable-installer.sh
./vscode-portable-installer.sh
rm ./vscode-portable-installer.sh

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you use the C/C++ Microsoft extension and have limited system resources, it is strongly recommended to reduce your intellisense cahce from 5GB to 512MB or less. On the university machines this script was written for, students are given 8GB partitions, which this cache eats through.

With VSCode open, press CTRL SHIFT P, then navigate to Settings, search for Cache Size and change the C_Cpp: Intelli Sense Cache Size from 5120 to a smaller value like 256 or 0 to disable the cache outright.